Dir.: William Wyler
Plot: A runaway princess falls into the path of an American journalist in Rome. He realises the exclusive on her whereabouts would be the story of a lifetime, but as they spend the day together she starts to seem more than just a meal ticket.
If the plot sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because it’s a very loose reworking of Frank Capra’s 1934 prototype for the genre which became romantic comedy, It Happened One Night. In the two decades that separate the two films, a lot had happened to cinema, and it shows in the European flavour which radiates not only from the gorgeous setting but also from its star.
